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Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

That is half granted which is denied graciously.
 The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
 Industry has annexed thereto the fair est fruits and the richest rewards.
 Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance and the parent of liberty.
 Perpetual pushing and assurance put difficulty out of countenance, and make seeming impossibility give way.
 Envy, like cold poison, benumbs and stupefcs; and, conscious of its own i'm potence, folds its arms in despair.
 Those that place their hope in another world have in great measure conquered dread of death and unreasonable love of life.
 Government mitigatcs the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
 Finding out about what one sees is the best way of getting an education. The trouble with most of us is that we accept what we see without inquiry or knowl- edge.
 Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles.
 It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary it in creases by the multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attain ments help to new conQuests.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

Speaking of the hay crop of the United States, the New York Times says: "The hay crop promises to be large this year. One of the largest dealers in this city said yesterday that the acreage in grass is fully 10 per cent. more than last year. In the Southern States, where clover is largely raised for fodder, it is better than last year. In this state, Pennsylvania and most of the New England States, the crop will be larger. In Illinois, h. diana, Iowa and Wisconsin the drought las affected the crop, and it will be smaller than in 1886. In Canada there is good growth, and most of the sur plus of last year is yet unsold. The quality, however, is generally reported to be poorer than last year. but farmers hope that it may show changed condi- tion should the weather be good for cur ing. The experience of past years, it is said, leads the moro intelligent farmers, especially those dependent on the New York market, to cut carly and carefully, as the hay which is poorly and carelessly made is rejected by buyers"
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
Ambergris.

Ambergris, which commands high price for perfumery and is prizcd in the east in medicine and as flavor in cook cry, was once absurdly guessed to bo; hardened foam of the sea- or fungoid growth in the ocean, but it is now known to be secretion of the liver of the sper- maceti whale, and is evidently product of some disease in the animal It IS soft, fatty substance of variegated gray or blackish color, and emits an agreeable odor when rubbed or heated. It is prin' cipally found floating on the seas of warm climates, though it is also obtained from the intestines of the whales. Tho largest piece known weighed 1Se pounds and was bought from the king of Tydore by the Dutch East India company.
 piece weighing 130 pounds was found in whale near the Windward islands, and sold for 500 pounds sterling,
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
It looks as if the Panama Canal

It looks as if the Panama Canal enter prise is doomed. While not more than one-fifth of the work has been done, the company has already expended double the original estimate of its cost, and the money on hand will not last more than four or five months longer. It is now reported that the builders of the canal have to contend not only with sliding mountain on one side of the cut in the Culebra Division, but also with rising bed in other parts of the line. The Engineering Nescs has been informed that in the lower parts of the route the bot tom of the ditch is continually forced upward by the weight of the excavated material deposited on each side, SO that in some places .it requires healthy and hard working dredge to hold its own. The quantity taken out under such con- ditions is included in the reports which show the total excavations for each
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

There is . newspaper museum in Ger, many whose directors are anxious to pos sess copy of every rare journal. They recently wrote coureteous letter to the editor of T 'Arenir du Tonkin, the journal founded by the French in Hanoi after the conquest of Tonquin, requesting him to present two numbers to the museum. They received letter from the publisher of which the following is translation: '.I thank you for giving me an opportu- nisy of making myself disagreeable to the Germans, and inform you that I re- fuse to send you the two numbers of EArenir du Tonkin which you wish to possess. Receive the assurance of my implacable hatred to the German race. !"
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

The Indianapolis Journal gives it's perspiring readers this cold comfort :: "Yes, it is rather warm, but we must take the weather as 1t comes. We should be thankful to have any, and even hot weather is better than none at all. It has its compensating features. There is no bothering with oyercoats, fur gloves, earmuffs, etc. Fires do not have to be raked every few minutes. Your horse does not have to be rough-shod to keep him from falling on the ice. Your own head is not exposed to an avalanche of snow from the roof as you walk the streets. The gas and water pipes are not frozen up. The young man who hangs on your front gate at night IS In no danger of being frost-bitten. There is no danger of pumps freezing; no ne- cessity of covering cucumber vines; fruit of all kinds is perfectly safe if the boys can't get at it; watermelons are beyond the danger point if they are under lock and key; last winters ice crop is safe beyond doubt; no immediate danger of blizzard; good time to prune the ther- mometer by cutting off the lower half. In fact, hot weather has many compen sations, not the least of which is that il teaches patience. Wait and it will b' cooler. Christmas is coming"
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
Most newspaper readers of middle age,

Most newspaper readers of middle age, or older, will recall to mind the murder of Albert D. Richardson by Daniel Mcfarland at the door of the New York Tribune office, nearly eighteen years ago. Mcfarland was tried before Recorder Hackctt and acquitted, since which time he has passed out of the knowledge of the public. Within the past few days he has been compelled to seek shelter in a New York station-house from the rain, having been turned out of doors by his landlord because of his inability to pay his rent. He is old, broken down and poor. He has managed to live since his scquittal by occasional writing for the newspapers. His hand has lost its cun- ming, however, and he finds himself a pauper in his old days. His divorced wife, who married Richardson on his leath- bed, inherited the property of the latter, and is still living in comfort in New York. She likewise writes for the papers occasionally, but is not like her former husband depending upon this pre- caFious profession for . support.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
A Bull.Fight Game.

Many boys annoy their mothers every vacation by continually running to them and asking them what there is to do, so I am going to describe little game for you. Here it is:
 What you need for this sport is a stout barrel, and as many poles as there are players. The poles should be eight or nine feet long. Then get as many small round baskets as there are poles, with a diameter of four or five inches, and as many round pieces of tin, of about the same diameter. Make hole in the pot tom of the basket, so that it will go over the end of the pole. Then measure off each pole about sixteen inches and bore hole, through which drive peg two or three inches long. Then slip the basket over the end of the pole until it hits the stick Then nail the piece of tin on the end, and your spear is finished.
 To hold the spear: Put the right hand inside of the basket, and take hold of the pole, so that the handle end of it will pass under the arm, having the piece of tin hehind the shoulder.
 Place: A field is best for this game. When you have got your field draw two lines about fifty feet apart, and divide the players into two equal parties. Put the barrel half way between these lines, and then each party takes their station just back of these lines, so that they arc opposite to each other. Then, at a given signal, both parties must run for the "Bull' and try to get it over the oppo- site line The party who succeeds in do- ing so is the winner. -[ Edward E. Whit inO
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
The Enicure'S Defeat.

A bet was recently made by two French gourmands, one of whom assert ed that he could detect the component parts of any dish put before him, the other betting at great odds that he would not be able to tell the material where with his cook would prepare a ''savory dish' for them. The bet was taken, the one confident in his quick, natural sense, the other in the skill of his cook. The cook-a Frenchman-of course exerted all his talents and surpassed all praise. The dish was placed before the knowing epicure. He tastes, smacks his lips, tastes again, smells it-tastes again. Alas it is redolcnt of all rich odors; such sauces, so marvcllously blended; such gravy, such solids-so soft, so tender! What can it be? A wondrous prepared tripe? No! Calf's head in a new shape? No, no, no! thousand ''Noes." Our epicure gives it up. "1t is old white kid glovesm is the cool explanation, when the bet is resigned as lost.-[New York Telegram.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
Meadows of Gold.

Meadows of gold,
 Rolling and reeling a-west, Ye clasp and hold
 The milk of the world at your breast Ye are the nurses that clutch The ladies of life, and touch The lips that famish and burn In agony cruel and stern. Meadows of gold,
 Reaching and running away Shod with the mold
 And crowned with the light of day. Ye are the chemists of earth, The wizards who waken to birth The violets blue and buttercups, too, Under the dark and the dew. Meadows of gold,
 Vending and vending along Fair to behold And merry and mellow with song. Ye are the poets whose chimes Are rung by the reapers, whose rhymes Are written in windrows of grass By musical sickles that pass. Meadows of gold,
 Laughing and leaping afar- Fast in your fold
 Forever the beautiful are Ye are the Hebes that dip, And lift from the loam to the lip The nectar, whose plethoric flood Is tinted and turned into blood.
 pr James Newton Matthews.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
The Ancient and Modern Plow

The blow in some form doubtless dates back at least $500 or 4000 years, as proved by chiseled slabs upon ancient monuments. For many centuries it was but crooked limb of tree. One of the earliest representations shows it as being drawn by four men who took DOT tions of the branches upon their shoul- ders, while two other men, walking be- hind, hold it to the ground with hands or feet. The first blows drawn by cat tie were guided by a single handle, while the plowman, with his free hand, sowed the grain. Other men followed as attendants to scare away birds and prevent them picking up the grain be- fore it should be covered by the blow.
 The Greeks believed the blow was the gift of the Goddess Ceres, and probably would have considered it sacrilege to try to improve it by any human ingenuity. This is doubtless one reason why the ancient blow remained so long in use without any material improvement in its construction It was sometimes shaped so as to raise the soil, as by a flat wedge; at other times the wedge was turned on edge to move the soil to one side and secure an open furrow for the seed to fall into, but it was not until the fif- teenth century that there was any indi- cation of the idea of combining the two forms of the wedge into the twisting mould board. It was only little more than century ago that the blow began to take the general form of the blow of the present day, and the improvements are due to number of inventors in diff ferent parts of the world. The Dutch of Holland gave the pattern for all our subsequent Improvements, but to Thom- as Jefferson is due the discovery and demonstration of the principle of the twist in the mould board. Webster took much interest in the improvement of blows, but it remained for Governor Holbrook, of Vermont, to give us the perfect blow of the present day. Chi cago Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
HUMOROUS.

In high splrltS-a summer therniom eter.
 The refined lard manufacturer has trying time of it.
 The quickest way to rise in the world is to go up in a balloon.
 There is only one season in the year for the kangaroo-spring.
 The longer man lives the more he knows about what he doesn't know.
 A girl may be like sugar for two req sons. She may be sweet, and she may be full of grit.
 The susceptible youth is like the mos- quito. There is little hope for him after he gets mashed.
 A half grown shark is said to be good eating. The full-grown is admitted to be good eater.
 A postage stamp is like youngster. It always sticks to business after 1t has been thoroughly licked.
 'sOrdcr is heavens first law" says Pope, and the restaurant keeper thinks it ought to be the customers too. i
 When docs lady treat man like telescope? When she draws him out, looks him through and then shuts him up.
 Another cure for consumption has been discovered. As the discovery was made in Vienna, the consumption meant is per haps that of beer.
 Don't call very large, strong, sin ewy man prevaricator. If you are sure he is prevaricator hlrc another man to break the news to him.
 If, through the success of the agitation for the women's rights, women ever come to sit in the jury box, infants will probably get to be criers in the court.
 A lady who advertised for girl Ito do light house york;" received letter from an applicant, who said her health demanded sea air, and asked where the lighthouse was situated.
 A farmer says: cone thing don't like about city folks-they be either so stuck up that yer can't reach 'em with hay stack pole, or so blamed friendly that they forget to pay their board"
 ''Theres some cloud resting on Squan- der. Every time meet him he is gloom fer than before. He must owe lot of money" "That isn't what troubles him, though. It's because he can't owe any more."
 Says mother: "One day found Alice, 0 little black eyed beauty, sitting astride my bedpost, gazing with delight at her image in the mirror. l asked why she looked in the glass. She frankly said: ''Causc like the looks of me-"
 q tell you, this fishing is no child's play" remarked Blobson, as he tipped up the bottle of bait, and impaled abouta pint of it. ''Fish have secret or two, and don't you forget it." "That may be-" responded Dumpscy, "but if I am not mistak" we shall worm it out of them"
 'No, Bobby" said his mother, "ono piece of pie is quite enough, for you!' 'Tt's funny" responded Bobby" with an injured air. "You say you are anx- ious that shonld learn to cat properly, and yet you won't give me chance to practice"
 TAKE A GOOD DEAL LESS.
 sLook at this watch for twenty dollarsl"
 The placard in the window read.
 A tramp stared in and said:
 IA funny offer! Why, sakes alive,
 I'll look at it all day for flve!"
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

In order to realize the enormous dam age done by May bugs, an agricultural paper gives the following authenticated figures. In the season of 1850, Ger man farmer near Halle collected 2817 bushels, estimated in number at g, ,OOO,- 900, of the destructive insects. In 1864, the catch, in the agricultural district of Leipsic alone, amounted in weight to thirty-two tons, or about 3SO, 900, 900. The largest catch known was that in the province of Saxe and the Anhalt duchies in 1868, when, according to official docu- ments, not less than 1900 tons (repre- senting fully 19, GOO, ,OOo bugs) were de- stroyed, most of which were killed by hot steam, and mixed with quicklime were used as manure A ton of May bugs is worth fifty five to sixty marks.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
The Limit of Life.

It would appear in fact as though five score years were the natural or normal limit of human life; and that when men die many years before that age is at tained, the fault, apart from malignant disease or accident, has lain with them selves. Underlying the old proverb, "Every man is fool or physician at 4O,' there is the important truth that it is in every mans power, if he is wise, to recognize early in life Qike Cornaro) the requirements of his own constitution, and the means by which all such stores of vitality as it may possess may be util- ized. An able physician said to me a short time ago: ''In all my experience have never known but one man who really died natural death;" and he went on to explain that man can only be said to die natural death when he dies all at once when the organs on which circulation, respiration and nutri- tion depend, all fail at about the same time; whereas one man dies because cir culation fails, another because the respi- ratory organs give out, and yet another because stomach, liver, kidneys, or bowels become unequal to their work. In fine, the secret of longevity lies in the attainment of a natural life to be brought to an end by natural death; and nearly every man, did he but give his vital powers fair chances, would find that, like
 The wonderful one-hoss shay,
 He was built in such a logical way
 LAS to run] hundred years to day,
 And then, of a sudden Ito pass away.]
 f 1.-The Cosmopolitan.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

The longest street tramway in the world will be that which is to connect a number of towns near Buenos Ayres, South America, and which will have a total length of POO miles. The road will also be exceptional in that sleeping cars will be run upon it for the comfort of the passengers. Horses will be employ ed as motive power instead of steam, because horses are cheap, fuel is dear and the people are slow. The price of two tons of coal will buy horse with its harness. The sleeping cars and all the other equipments of the line are being supplied by g Philadelphia company.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

Ever since the introduction of skim grating, the paragraphcrs have harped on the story of the white man who had piece of a negro's skin grafted on his arm, which patch gradually grew larger, and finally changed the man into a negro. Professor Thiersch, of Leipzig, has now shown that if a piece of negro's skin is grafted on white man, the piece of transplanted skin gradually changes its color till it is white, and conversely if piece of white skin is graftcd on negro.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
A Lesson in French,

Mrs. A. (who is taking French lessons) Now, Bridget, when Professor Blanque comes you must say "entrez" to him, and he will know what you mean and come into the palor.
 The bell rings and Bridget goes to the door. It is the professor.
 "Ontario,' says Bridget. "Wud ye walk into the pairler, sur2'
 The professor walked in, and Bridget reported her triumph to the cook Harper's Bazar.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
Wall Street Life.

Wall street life is demoralizing. It units men for legitimate work and for business requiring energy and hard work. The street is surrounded with temptations to gamble in other petty ways and especially to drink. The Wall street gin mills are numerous and gaudy and seductive. A hit of few hundred dollars in mans favor tempts him to take a drink of jubilation while loss demands the cup of consolation. Money is made and lost on so big scale that young men especially arc fascinated by the rapidity of the pace and magnitude of the business. There is temptation to prodigality in cabs and in dinners and lunches which is freely gratitied. A young man who has spent a year in Wall street brokers offices who makes $500 to-day and loses $4O0 tomorrow and makes $2O0 the next, isn't going to con- sider the value of ten or twenty dol lar note when his own pleasure or con-
 
 the end of the year he finds himself with hardly $100 to his name, he is entirely and absolutely unftted for work, and he is more inclined to put $10 in bucket shop, with the hope of making it $20, than to work on clerks wages. He has become interested in petroleum and grain and horse races and lottery tickets and matching half-dollars and draw poker, and work is very tiresome. He, in short, is good for nothing. The down town saloons are full of these Wall street wrecks. They are on hand for drinks, but are good for nothing when there is work to be done.-[ Buffalo Courier.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

his lips, in modest depreciation of the homage. The sheik told us that he had lasted for eight years; that is, had eaten nothing during the day, and only one meal after sunset. Notwithstanding this limited diet, he is, as he says, as hearty, plump and healthy as any of us. He introduced us to one of his follow CTS, a very holy man, one of the widest of the performers in the scene previously described, who, he told us, had lasted AS years in the same way.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

An official report to the British Govern ment states that the yearly cotton crop of Japan is about 1S1, ,0OO, 900 pounds. The manufacture of the staple is of the most primitive description. It is almost entirely domestic industry, gin, spindle and loom being found in the house of the farmer on whose land the plant is grown, the female members of the house doing the spinning and weaving.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise says that about three thousand head of sheep are now finding abundant pasturage in the vicinity of this city, where twenty years ago whippoorwill could not fly over the country without carrying sack of provisions. Gradually the summer season here has changed. We now have considerable showers and grass where but two decades ago all was drought and
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03
A Familiar SOnnd.

''Do that again, young man," said a Jersey farmer to an Asbury Park hotel clerk who was trying to play trombone; ''do that again, for it makes me think of home."
 'How sop queried the clerk.
 Because it sounds just like ono of my old brindle COWS believing. .'-[ Hotel Mail.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

s'Clocks are cheap enough nowadays for house to have one in every room, !" says a Philadelphia jeweler. "A good timekeeper, nickle plated, can be sold for 90 cents at profit. Machinery has worked this wonder, and Yankee clocks go to Mexico, South America and Europe by the thousands every day in the yoo
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

The frequent train robberies in Texas have resulted in decision to arm eight men on each passenger train. The Governor will have them sworn in to serve as regular rangers. They will be, so far as possible, regular train men, and will be armed and paid by the railroad companies. To put eight men on each train will require 400 men to be sworn ;p
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

A lately dead woman of Racine, Wis. !, must have been very popular person. After her death recently, the bereaved widower invited all who had been kind banquet in her honor, and it is estimated that 5000 persons congregated to take an active part in the feast. The guests celebrated with such enthusiasm that the town became a very bright red before morning.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

Many persons do not know that Jcffer- son Davis is blind of an eye; and more do not know how he was thus afflicted. When he was about fourteen years old he and bis cousin. Joseph L. Davis, were shooting with crossbows at mark on a pine stump. One of the bolts fired by young Jefferson flew back and struck him squarely in the eye, putting it com pletelv out
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-03

By tho latest returns of the Agricul- tural Department, the leading farm pro. ducts of this country amount to $4, 014,- 900, 900 yearly. That alone, independ- ently of manufactures, fisheries, etc., represents an average income of $70 a year for every man, woman, and child in the country.